Tolib Ayombekov

Tolib Ayombekov was the General of the Border Guard Directorate of the State Committee for National Security of Tajikistan as well as a tobacco and drug smuggler, criminal, and leader of the United Tajik Opposition. In 2010-2012, he led the UTO's insurgency in eastern Tajikistan in the aftermath of the Tajik Civil War after murdering his own boss; his own brother had been killed in the civil war back in 1994. Ayombekov was captured at the end of 2012, bringing an end to the failed insurgency.